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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is founded to fight discrimination, help educate Chicanos and protest segregation, killings and other abuses.
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This book took place in the south part of Mississippi.
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The first training program for African American pilots is established at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The Tuskegee Airmen serve heroically in World War II.
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James Earl Ray assassinates Martin Luther King, while he is standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In outrage of the murder, many blacks take to the streets in a massive wave of riots across the U.S.
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Fifteen African American members of Congress form the Congressional Black Caucus to present a unified African American voice in Congress.
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The Equal Rights Amendment, which would have written into the constitution a ban on sexual bias, equal pay for equal work, and a guarantee of equal opportunity, falls three states short of ratification.
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Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American Miss America.
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Overriding President Ronald Reagan's veto, Congress passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expanded the reach of nondiscrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds.
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Chresanto August was born July 23,1996 in South Central California.
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On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama is elected President of the United States of America.
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This was the day my dog diggy was born. We got him when he was 6 weeks. Diggy is now 3 years old in human years but in dog years he is 15.